The Commonly Overlooked Signs that Will Predict if You Achieve Your Goals as a Humanitarian and International Development Leader
Are you unknowingly delaying achieving your goals by focusing on the wrong tasks?
Discover the subtle yet powerful signs that determine your success in today’s episode!
Today's quick quote episode is inspired by this quote by Idowu Koyenikan (author of "Wealth for All Africans"):
“Where your attention goes, your time goes.”
– Idowu Koyenikan
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FULL TRANSCRIPT:
On today's episode learn the commonly overlooked signs that predict if you will achieve your goals and make a greater impact.
Welcome to The Modern Humanitarian and Development Leader podcast, the podcast helping humanitarian and development supervisors make a greater impact by taking control of your time, leading more inclusively and empowering your team all the while avoiding stress, burnout, and overwhelm. I'm your host, leadership coach and former aid worker, Torrey Peace.
Are you ready? Let's get started.
Hello, my aspiring modern humanitarian and development leaders. Today's quick quote episode is inspired by the quote "where your attention goes, your time goes", and this is by
who is the author of "Wealth for all Africans."
So one of the best ways to know if you will achieve your goals is by how you're using your time. And as the quote here says, we use our time where we put our attention. If you're like most humanitarian and development leaders, your attention is on putting out fires and trying just to get things done. That means most of your attention goes to email, meetings and answering your team's questions. The problem is if we amplify that in other words, if we take those activities and we compound them out over time, where is that going to lead you? It will likely lead you to more of the same. When we answer emails, we get back more emails. When we attend meetings, we are invited to more meetings,
And when we answer teams questions, they will keep coming to us with more. You are creating more of the same.
And what's worse, all of these types of activities are usually driven by other people's needs and wants not your own. And that means by responding to them and spending time on them, you are also reinforcing the same for others. You are making them less productive by being on email, by being in meetings and by being reliant on you for answers. So to be a modern humanitarian and development leader, you need to take a step back and be intentional about where your attention goes or how you use your time. Your attention is focused on your goals, the impact that you want to create. And you understand, how you use your time is going to lead you either to less productivity and achieving other people's goals or to greater productivity, and achieving your goals. You are in control of your time and agenda, you decide. So looking at how you use your time, where is your attention going? And where might you want to refocus an order to use your time more efficiently? Like mentioned in last episode, perhaps start small by spending less time on email or by not being available all the time to your team.
And then just see how it goes, conduct an experiment that's based on facts and not your own assumptions. Act based on intention, not based on fear. This is the path to becoming a modern humanitarian and development leader. And on next week's episode, learn how to stop being a victim and finally take responsibility to create the impact you're seeking as a humanitarian development leader. Until next week, keep evolving. Bye for now.
Are you the type of leader that tells others what to do? Or do you let them figure it out for themselves? Understanding your leadership style is the first step to deciding what's working for you and what's not. To find out your leadership style, take my free quiz "what is your leadership style?" You'll immediately find out your default style, how it may be impacting your team, and a few practical ways to become an even better leader.
Just click on the link in the show notes, www.aidforaidworkers.com/quiz,. Fill out your quiz and click submit. So what are you waiting for? Go to www.aidforaidworkers.com/quiz, and discover your leadership style now. Your team will thank you for it.